How a Chance Discovery Became the Basis for Today’s Biggest Blockbuster Weight Loss Drugs

Scientists discovered that Gila monster venom contains a compound that slows digestion. It led to one of the biggest medical ...
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Chemists win Nobel Prize for 'new form of molecular architecture'

This year’s Nobel Prize-winning chemists designed porous materials that can pull water from the desert air, capture carbon dioxide from factories, and scoop pollution out of water.

Molecular discovery that won Nobel Prize in chemistry is likened to ‘Harry Potter’ enchanted handbag

FILE – A visitor reads a book written by South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, at a special section of a bookstore in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 10, ...